2008 Week One Games (and Predictions)
August 28, 2008 by Allison Boyer
Filed under Football
College football season is finally here! Here is the Week One schedule, you TV guide, and my predictions (in italicized text). Leave a comment below with some of your predictions or the games you’re most excited to watch. (All times are EST)
Thursday
- 7:00 PM
- Northeastern at Ball State
- UTEP at Buffalo
- Eastern Illinois at Central Michigan
- Indiana State at Eastern Michigan
- 7:30 PM
- Hofstra at Connecticut
- Jacksonville State at Georgia Tech
- Vanderbilt at Miami-OH (on ESPNU)
- Eastern Kentucky at Cincinnati
- Charleston Southern at Miami-FL
- Troy at Middle Tennessee
- 8:00 PM
- South Dakota State at Iowa State
- North Caroline State at South Carolina (on ESPN)
- 8:10
- #23 Wake Forest at Baylor
- 9:00
- Oregon State at Stanford (on ESPN2)
Friday
Saturday
- Noon
- Youngstown State at #2 Ohio State (on Big Ten Network)
- Akron at #13 Wisconsin (on Big Ten Network)
- #17 Virginia Tech at East Carolina (on ESPN)
- Coastal Carolina at #22 Penn State (on Big Ten Network)
- Bowling Green at #25 Pittsburgh (on ESPNU)
- Syracuse at Northwestern (on ESPN2)
- Western Kentucky at Indiana (on Big Ten Network)
- Maine at Iowa (on Big Ten Network)
- 12:30 PM
- Georgia Southern at #1 Georgia
- Hawaii at #5 Florida
- 2:00 PM
- Ohio at Wyoming (on The Mtn.)
- 2:05 PM
- Southern Utah at Air Force
- 3:30 PM
- #3 USC at Virginia (on ABC)
- Villanova at #8 West Virginia
- Utah at Michigan (on ABC)
- Oklahoma State at Washington State
- Towson at Navy
- 3:45 PM
- Delaware at Maryland (on ESPNU)
- 4:00 PM
- Tulsa at UAB
- 4:30 PM
- Illinois State at Marshall
- 5:00 PM
- Appalachian State at #7 LSU (on ESPN)
- 6:00 PM
- Northern Iowa at #16 BYU (on the Mtn.)
- McNeese State at North Carolina
- TCU at New Mexico
- South Carolina State at UCF
- 6:45 PM
- Mississippi State at Louisiana Tech (on ESPN2)
- 7:00 PM
- Chattanooga at #4 Oklahoma
- Louisiana-Monroe at #10 Auburn
- Florida Atlantic at #11 Texas
- Eastern Washington #12 Texas Tech
- Florida International at #14 Kansas
- Tennessee-Martin at #19 South Florida
- Western Illinois at Arkansas
- Northern Illinois at Minnesota (on Big Ten Network)
- Memphis at Mississippi
- James Madison at Duke
- Western Michigan at Nebraska
- Arkansas State at Texas A&M
- Southern University at Houston
- Louisiana-Lafayette at Southern Miss
- 7:05 PM
- North Texas at Kansas State
- 7:30 PM
- Boston College at Kent State (on ESPNU)
- 8:00 PM
- #34 Alabama and #9 Clemson
- UC Davis at San Jose State
- Michigan State at California
- Idaho State at Boise State
- 8:30 PM
- #20 Illinois at #6 Missouri (on ESPN)
- 9:05 PM
- Grambling State at Nevada
- 9:30 PM
- Cal Poly at San Diego State
- 10:00 PM
- Northern Arizona at #15 Arizona State
- Washington at #21 Oregon
- Idaho at Arizona
- Utah State at UNLV
Sunday
Monday
- 4:00 PM
- Fresno State at Rutgers (on ESPN)
- 8:00 PM
- #18 Tennessee at UCLA (on ESPN)
I know it’s not a week one game, but I’m most excited about USC v. Stanford! It’ll be the second game I get to on the USC train, and it going to be so much fun. The train is a luxury trip that runs from LA to an away game each year. Definitely consider it.